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Editor’s Note: A previous version of this article incorrectly referred to Cameron Park Elementary School as a middle school. C.W. Stanford Middle School in the Orange County Schools district will see its name changed in the coming months. The system’s Board of Education on Monday moved ahead with plans to shift the school from honoring Charles Whitson Stanford Sr., a long-time school board chairman for the district who served from 1941 to 1967. The school district dedicated the middle school in his honor in 1970 shortly before Stanford’s death. The decision for change, which comes two weeks after the district unanimously approved to change the name of a middle school that honored a slaveholder, came with a 5-2 vote. School board members Will Atherton and Bonnie Hauser were the dissenting votes. ....
“We are responsible for school and community climate," board member Jennifer Moore said. "We are having to address issues of inequity because our predecessors did not.” ....
Orange County Residents Largely Oppose Planned Buc-ee s at Final Public Hearings Special Virtual Meeting on Jan. 12, 2021 The Orange County Board of Commissioners met with residents Tuesday night for the last of three public hearing sessions that began in mid-December. The hearings regarded a proposed rezoning that would allow Buc-ee s, a Texas-owned gas station and convenience store company, to build their first North Carolina branch in the small unincorporated community of Efland. The proposed development would be split into two phases. It would create jobs and potential tax revenue for the county, but it would also mean the creation of a 120-nozzle fueling station that requires six large underground tanks to be placed on top of a protected watershed. ....